I did read the thread on Bitcoin talk quite closely. It's clear to me Bluedragon747 was initially concerned that people were glomming on to his team's work and claiming to be the Photon Management Team. After some discussion where, as I say above, he shamed them into at least saying they wouldn't co-opt his team's work, he says he's cool with them as long as they are supporting the actual project. 

On the new community telegram, 9 out of 10 people ask "when is cryptopia coming back" and "when will the price go up" and the only stated goal of the "community" is a $1 price for Photon. The price of the coin is not the goal of the coin or its devs, it's the goal of this new community. When your only goal is the price of the coin reaching a certain point, what do you think the plan is when that goal is reached? What's the point of having a goal of the price of something if you don't plan on selling when it reaches that price?

Do I need to be this explicit for the high likelihood of this being a pump-and-dump scheme to be clear? I hope I'm wrong but I'm just trying to be objective here and the facts seem clear to me.